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Bonnie Greer at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival
English - October 08, 2014 09:36 - 56 minutes - 38.3 MB - ★★★ - 3 ratingsBooks Arts edbookfest author talks podcasts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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From Rags to Cultural Riches
Best known in the UK as a dispassionate commentator on Newsnight Review and Question Time, even when sitting beside the leader of the BNP, Bonnie Greer has now unveiled the first volume of her memoirs, A Parallel Life. In this event she talks to Ruth Wishart about her tough upbringing and how it feels to be the key character in a real-life rags to riches story.